That's the only big change. Some people reported a problem with the screen energy saver hanging, for BillToo this was on a radeon. So I tested beta5 again on my radeon box and noticed that 2d acceleration was not working. That's too big of a bug, so I recompiled 2.6.38.8. It should be a good kernel, Fedora and Ubuntu had releases with it, so it should be well tested. We also get back the big kernel lock which might be useful to someone. So just to review, we had to dump the 3.0 kernel due to a cifs/aufs bug and dump 2.6.39 due to a radeon bug. Maybe if I built xf86-video-ati from git it would work, but then who knows what else that might break.

Tried to compile NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.21, however, I get an error message "unable to find system utility ldconfig". Pfind cannot locate glibc which is also required. DISREGARD, problem was caused by bad download of devx.

Also, beta 6 failed to boot the beta 5 save file and reboot still restarts X on first try and second attempt, it reboots properly. Otherwise with a new save file, everything looks good so far.Last edited by Jim1911 on Fri 29 Jul 2011, 10:54; edited 1 time in total

Manual frugal install on two computers, on both beta 6 has worked very well.

I am posting from a Dell Dimension E510 using a wireless connection via an USB wireless adapter. Thanks for including the necessary Realtek drivers. As you can see from the attached screenshot, I have loaded some extra software, OOO 64 bit works fine, including printing.

I installed the devx and compiled ati-driver-installer-11-7-x86.x86_64.run
driver and it compiled without error, then did "aticonfig --initial"
and "xwin" but x wouldn't start and kept leaving me at the prompt.
Entering xorgwizard + xwin got me back to the desktop.

Later:
I plugged in a flash drive to access a file and as soon as I did that
it caused a kernel panic and a black screen full of text with info
about interupts and kernel 2.6.38.8, the lights on my keyboard were
flashing also.
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The following is info from a wary that I made in woof with one
of pemasu's kernels and after compiling the ati proprietary driver.
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Fri 29 Jul 2011 Operating System: Wary Puppy-080 Linux 2.6.38.4
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood PRO [Radeon HD 5500 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: REDWOOD 01.00

Calibre install works fine in 5.2.6 now but I would like to get it running on Fatdog. Attached is a screen capture of the failure. I have added python-2.6.4-amd64 python library, dbus-1.2.16, qt4-4.6.1.

On another note I am having a heck of a time with sound. Lots of it but to control levels I have to use alsamixer. Both xine and pmusic have no control over volume.

... I am having a heck of a time with sound. Lots of it but to control levels I have to use alsamixer. Both xine and pmusic have no control over volume. ....

@Fishy, could you share a hardinfo summary or attach a hardinfo report?

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The open source driver in beta 6 (and earlier) works pretty well but I don't
understand why the proprietary driver can't work too,anyhow,I hope this info is
useful.

The ATI installer doesn't know what to do with /usr/X11R7. Nvidia knows where to install things. I'll make a ATI pet package once we're sure about the kernel.

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Later:
I plugged in a flash drive to access a file and as soon as I did that
it caused a kernel panic and a black screen full of text with info
about interupts and kernel 2.6.38.8, the lights on my keyboard were
flashing also.

Can you reproduce this without the ATI stuff in there? If so can you take a picture of the kernel panic?

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